Watermelon Caipirinha
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A Caipirinha with watermelon: muddled lime and sugar give tartness, and the melon adds a soft, juicy sweetness. Cachaça keeps it grassy and bright.
Method
Stirred
Glass
highball
Difficulty
Medium
Flavor Profile
🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free
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- Halve the lime lengthwise through both poles, then cut one half into eight half-moon slices, 3–4 mm thick. Drop them into a sturdy rocks glass.
- Add the sugar (3 bar spoons caster sugar, or 15 ml of 2:1 sugar syrup) and muddle.
- Add the watermelon and muddle again, until the fruit has given up its juice and the sugar has dissolved.
- Tip the muddled fruit and sugar into a highball glass, ideally a 30 cl one.
- Pour the cachaça, kept in the freezer, into the glass you muddled in and swirl it around to rinse out what is left. Pour it into the highball glass and stir well.
- Crack four or five large ice cubes into chunks with an ice tapper, without crushing them, and add them to the glass. Stir, then top up with more ice. Serve with a stirrer and no straws.